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Issues Fetching LinkedIn Profiles During Analysis: Need Assistance
hi team - I've been getting a few responses during a linkedin analysis that says unable to fetch linkedin profile (although i have provided a valid link) some examples
The 'unable to fetch LinkedIn profile' errors can occur due to a few key limitations:1. Data Provider Restrictions: Our data providers don't use active sessions or cookies to scrape LinkedIn data in real-time. 2. LinkedIn Visibility Settings: Some LinkedIn profile fields are only visible when logged in, which our providers cannot access.These limitations are in place to ensure compliant data collection. While there are alternative methods like using scrapers such as Phantombuster or Apify that could provide more accurate data, we don't recommend these as they could put your LinkedIn account at risk.
Could you please provide more details about the specific issues you're experiencing with these LinkedIn profiles? Are there any error messages or particular data points that are missing?
Yukti A.··Hi! I'm trying to understand when and when it cannot access Linkedin URLs. For instance, we have an entire flow designed where Clay finds contacts, enriches with Linkedin profiles, extracts posts and Open AI uses that to give a summary of Linkedin. That seems to work for the most part A few questions:
Can Clay only read Linkedin profile URLs if it's also finding the URLs? Or am I understanding this incorrectly?
Does extracting Linkedin posts also work for specific URLs?
Can Clay access the about me section on Linkedin profiles in any scenario and provide a summary?
Yes, we can help you extract information from LinkedIn profiles in several ways:1. When you have a LinkedIn profile URL, you can use our "Enrich Person from Profile" feature to retrieve comprehensive details about an individual. 2. We integrate with 10+ prospecting sources and can leverage data from LinkedIn through our various providers. This allows you to: • Find leads • Enrich those leads with additional data • Connect the data to other tools in your stack 3. You can analyze LinkedIn engagement, such as identifying people who commented on specific posts and enriching their profiles with additional information. 4. For Sales Navigator users, you can import searches via URL in our Find People Search feature, which retrieves publicly available LinkedIn profile data. You can import up to 2,500 results per Sales Navigator Source. Source: Write personalized emails using recent personal or professional posts | Clay
Hey Shwetha, thanks for the message and sharing the information! Happy to help. Jumped into the table and noticed the AI column is for Generating Text as opposed to browsing the web which Claygent can do. The services via API offered by AI companies aren't yet enabled to browse online, that feature to browse online they only offer it if you use it directly within their native platform instead. Since you already enriched the LI profiles, you can instead provide that data to your prompt, so it doesn't try to browse and scrape the profile again, it should read what you already have and output the results based on it. Let me know if you have additional questions or run into issues though! https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/w28k1kwz/1275125398/6e7eb614f22629ed4d4c077d78c2/chrome_fCqW5b2bfK.png?expires=1733247000&signature=a8c00b50fea0cf3818c24fba2dbdd2e322547236e5655bfee85e3effc0c1fe4b&req=dSIgE8h8mIJWUfMW1HO4zduXQLesao500r9RniRe41JJ2RJzMwTibhvN7J%2Fe%0ABQ5U%0A
- Yukti A.··
Arturo - can you also help take a look at this table & recommend how we go about doing linkedin analysis for this - https://app.clay.com/workspaces/243239/tables/t_8N7f6ougtMZJ/views/gv_HTxFVnwQyfCu
Thank you for the link, Shwetha! I would recommend a couple of options: 1. Use a similar approach/method as the previous table, start with Enrich Person From Profile integration then give that data to the AI column instead. That AI column is also only generating text, not browsing which is why you see a similar message in the end. 2. You can instead select the Web research option to use Claygent, some tools may still have some issues accessing a lot of the data though, because LI itself has scraping limitations. Some of our proprietary models like Helium or Neon can potentially get you more information and provide you an analysis with the same prompt. https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/w28k1kwz/1275277472/4f0f72b70e8be532c17da3abcc27/chrome_zczBQqJ9gI.png?expires=1733253300&signature=43fffdaf1b270551b882e2c9c4d848b8b6e8e7625c7119019e6dba196bea6691&req=dSIgE8t5moVYW%2FMW1HO4zTG68yA3ot60J5WNYBwb1BS4cmrujmihXbqhQGKb%0AuC54%0A Let me know if you run into any issues!
Thanks Arturo - I'm now analyzing the person's profile from the Enrich person's resultset - while it does give info on their following, certifications, patents etc it does not give me things like:
Posts they have contributed to or have been mentioned in
Blogs, newsletters they have participated as authors in
Events, conferences they have attended
Recommendations they have received etc
These pieces of info are important for us to get a sense of the lead's interests, focus areas, etc Wouldn't this require a scrape of their linkedin profile to get it?
Hey there - just wanted to check in here to see if you needed anything else! Feel free to reply back here if you do.